Sound
Dudley Simpson
EN cinema · 89 credits
Born
4 October 1922
Died
4 November 2017 (aged 95)
Birthplace
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Dudley George Simpson (4 October 1922 – 4 November 2017) was an Australian composer and conductor. He was the Principal Conductor of the Royal Opera House orchestra for three years and worked as a composer on British television. He worked on the BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who, for which he composed incidental music during the 1960s and 1970s. When Simpson died aged 95 in 2017, The Guardian wrote that he was "at his most prolific as the creator of incidental music for Doctor Who in the 1960s and 1970s, contributing to 62 stories over almost 300 episodes – more than any other composer." Among his television work was the music for Moonstrike (1963), theme music for The Last of the Mohicans (1971), theme music for The Brothers (1972), The Tomorrow People (1973), Moonbase 3 (1973), The Ascent of Man (1973) and Blake's 7 (1978). He also composed music for several plays from the BBC Television Shakespeare series.
Known for
Filmography
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
Original Music Composer
The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams
Original Music Composer
Blake's 7: Duel
Original Music Composer
Blake's 7: Orac
Original Music Composer
Blake's 7: Aftermath
Original Music Composer
Love Song
1985
Love Song
Original Music Composer
Titus Andronicus
Conductor, Original Music Composer
Blake's 7: The Beginning
Original Music Composer
Amy
Music Editor, Original Music Composer
Henry VI Part 1
Original Music Composer
The Tragedy of Richard III
Original Music Composer
The Winter's Tale
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Horns of Nimon
Original Music Composer
Hamlet
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Creature from the Pit
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Nightmare of Eden
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: City of Death
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Underworld
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang
as Conductor (uncredited), Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Face of Evil
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Robots of Death
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Horror of Fang Rock
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Invisible Enemy
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Image of the Fendahl
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Sun Makers
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Masque of Mandragora
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Robot
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Planet of Evil
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Android Invasion
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Ark in Space
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Time Warrior
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders
Original Music Composer
The Legend of Hell House
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Three Doctors
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Frontier in Space
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Green Death
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Curse of Peladon
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Time Monster
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Colony in Space
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Dæmons
Original Music Composer
To Lay a Ghost
Original Music Composer
The Last Witness
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Spearhead from Space
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The War Games
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Seeds of Death
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Space Pirates
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Fury from the Deep
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker
Original Music Composer
The Fastest Draw
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Crusade
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Chase
Original Music Composer
The Dead Past
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Planet of Giants
Original Music Composer